Culturing enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli in the presence and absence of glucose as a simple means of evaluating the acid tolerance of stationary- phase cells

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4009-4013

  Buchanan, Robert L ^a   Edelson, Sharon G ^a  

^a EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029805913     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.11.4009-4013.1996     Document Type: Article

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